The largest known hailstone to have fallen was in Germany in 1925, which weighed close to four and a half pounds.

Martin had just received his brand new driver's license. The family troops out to the driveway, and climbs in the car, where he is going to take them for a ride for the first time.

Dad immediately heads for the back seat, directly behind the newly minted driver. "I'll bet you're back there to get a change of scenery after all those months of sitting in the front passenger seat teaching me how to drive, " says the beaming boy to his father. "Nope, " comes dad's reply, "I'm gonna sit here and kick the back of your seat as you drive, just like you've been doing to me all these years." Q: Why did the blonde have tire tread marks on her back? A: From crawling across the street when the sign said "DON'T WALK". IT WASN'T MY FAULT! The ingenuity of drivers involved in accidents in seeking to assert their innocence or at least excuse their errors, is apparently inexhaustible, to judge from this genuine selection of excerpts from insurance claims: I consider that neither vehicle was to blame, but if either were to blame it was the other one. I knocked over a man. He admitted it was his fault as he had been run over before. One wheel went into the ditch, my feet jumped from brake to accelerator pedal, leaped across to the other side and jammed into the trunk of a tree.

I collided with a stationary tramcar coming the other way.

To avoid a collision I ran into the other car. Car had to turn sharper than was necessary owing to an invisible lorry. I collided with a stationary tree. The other man altered his mind so I had to run over him. I told the other idiot what he was then went on.

A pedestrian hit me and went under my car. I blew my horn, but it would not work as it was stolen. I thought the side window was down, but it was up as I found when I put my head through it.

Cow wandered into my car. I was afterwards informed that the cow was half-witted. A bull was standing near and a fly must have tickled him as he gored my car. A lorry backed through my windscreen into my wife's face. I left my car unattended for a minute when by accident or design it ran away.

The other car collided with mine without giving any warning of its intentions. "I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work." - Thomas Alva Edison I think of this story every time I reach for fattening foods.. My mother-in-law was sitting at my kitchen table watching me race around. I had worked all day, had a baby on my hip, a toddler on the floor, and my mother-in-law had just "dropped by, " expecting to join us for dinner. As I moved from task to task - out-of-breath, aggravated, and exhausted - my mother-in-law said, "Gee, with all the running around you do, you'd think you would be skinny." Thought for the Day Everyone seems normal until you get to know them.